The Land hosted historic WWII Victory Gardens, see below.

4C Garden Project - Sowing the Seeds of Community

In 2016, a $1,000 grant from The Fund For Wellesley enabled a group of Mandarin-speaking Wellesley residents to garden the 4C Plot
at the Weston Road Community Gardens this summer.

The Natural Resources Commission worked with volunteers from the Wellesley Village
Church, which leases the plot, Mandarin-speaking students from the Wellesley Youth Commission who helped with the farming, and the Wellesley Housing Authority and Wellesley Council on Aging who
assisted with transportation, to make this project go.

The 4C Garden provides fresh vegetables for the Morton Circle residents, and any extra vegetables are donated to the Wellesley Food Pantry. What an amazing project!

Serving the Community

Continuing a long history of food donations, a number of gardeners recently donated rhubarb to the Women's Lunch
Place in Boston.

From their FB page: Chef Sherry kept asking us if we knew where she could get some rhubarb and now we know why! The incredibly generous gardeners of Wellesley's Weston Road Community Gardens
at the North 40 (under the purview of the Wellesley Natural Resorces Commission) came to our rescue, growing, cutting and delivering the rhubarb Sherry used to make this tart and tasty strawberry
rhubarb pie!

The Land Hosted Historic WWII Victory Gardens

The advent of World War II elicited a patriotic response from Wellesley College, which granted requests from town residents to establish Victory Gardens on a portion of the Botany
Department land, by then known as The Weston Road Laboratories. Fred Campbell, 91, of Weston was a private in the army in those days, and remembers riding by the Weston Road Victory Gardens. "With
rationing, they helped to ease the national food shortage, freeing up goods for the troops," he says. The College even housed caretakers at 146 Weston Road, "to look out for the gardens," in exchange
for rent. Text and photo fromThe Coveted North 40, Wellesley Weston Magazine, Winter 2014/2015

6.02 (e): The Buyer will commit to maintain, for a period of at least three (3) years after the Closing, a “community garden” at some location within the property, substantially
similar in nature to that which currently exists along the Weston Road boundary. The existing garden area contains approximately two and one-half acres (excluding the access road) and contains
approximately fifty (50) gardening plots used by town residents, plus an adjacent area of approximately one acre, containing approximately twenty (20) plots that are used solely by the Seller. During
such time as the Buyer maintains the “community garden,” whether on the Property or elsewhere, Wellesley College students and staff shall have exclusive access to and use of at least 2 plots of a
size substantially the same as the current plot size (approximately 25 feet by 40 feet each), subject to such reasonable regulations or conditions as are, from time to time, generally applicable to
residents or other users, except that such Wellesley College use will not lapse without the written consent of the Seller, or be subject o any lottery or other user selection process that may, from
time to time, be in effect.

Wellesley Historical Commission Report on Historical Assets in or Near the “North 40”

Update on Proposed Building at 148 Weston Road

What's going on at the North 40?

Residents who regularly visit the North 40 – and specifically, the part that was once a dump site – have noticed town employees in the area and heard rumors that
trees are going to be removed.Read
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